Amanda Niamh Dawson
Summer 2025 | Poetry
Darts
Anthems of peace
Breakneck speed
In deepest sheets
Of sleep
And code
Parameters breached
By me
This girl?
This lord
Unfurls
Trains tugging hearts
I’m on that sideline
Apart
I’m singing
Words
Our darts
Our greatest art
Amanda Niamh Dawson grew up in New England, worked in New York in art and publishing and now lives on the Sonoma Coast in California. A poem won an award in the 2023 Poetry Society of Michigan’s Peninsula Poets Contest. Her work has appeared recently in Pomona Valley Review, Literary Yard, Hudson Valley Writers Guild, The Ulu Review, The Piker Press, The Galway Review, and Kelp Journal’s The Wave. IG: @thedawsonian